Category: Updates from Rose Bay Secondary College

New resources to help HSC students stay healthy

With only a month until the first written HSC exams, Year 12 students have an extra place to look for support.

Year 12 and the HSC can be a stressful time, and this year’s students have already overcome bushfires, floods and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The department has brought together new and updated tools to help HSC students stay healthy, active and connected as they finish their final weeks of school.

Stay healthy HSC includes:

  • advice about looking after your own mental health and checking in on friends from ReachOut.com
  • exam tips from the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA)
  • on-demand video lessons, written by teachers, to help with study.

Visit Stay healthy HSC to explore the resources.

Update on religious and ethics activities in NSW schools

Special Religious Education (SRE)/Special Education in Ethics (SEE) is not currently permitted in Greater Sydney, including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour.

Approved providers have modified their authorised curriculum to enable students to learn from home.

Parents/carers may wish to access the SRE and SEE resources through the portal entry points to lesson content below:

For more information or support on these resources, please contact the approved provider.

Refer to the department’s COVID-19 Advice for families page for more information on school operations.

COVID-19 updates for schools outside of Greater Sydney

Restrictions on certain activities and non-essential visitors – applies to schools outside of Greater Sydney (including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour).

All students are expected to be at school unless they have even the mildest of COVID-19 symptoms.

Under the current health orders, there is nothing to restrict students and staff who must attend school from moving between two areas with different levels of restrictions. Students and staff should reduce traveling to geographical areas with higher levels of COVID-19 restrictions in place.

A reminder for all families

Students should not attend school if unwell, even with mild symptoms of COVID-19. Any person with any COVID-19 symptoms should be sent home and should not return until they have received a negative test result and are symptom-free. In circumstances where children have other medical reasons for recurrent symptoms a letter from their GP is sufficient to negate the requirement for a negative test.

Anyone who is unwell with COVID-19 symptoms is strongly encouraged to get tested and self-isolate until a negative result is received. Find your local testing clinics.

Latest advice

Refer to Advice for families for more information.

COVID-19 updates for schools in Greater Sydney

Learning from home; schools are open for families who need it – applies to schools in Greater Sydney (including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour).

Students learning from home. No student is to be turned away. Early childhood education services can continue to operate.

All non–core curriculum related activities are to cease on school site.

Schools should not turn away any student from attending the school site in person. Schools will provide a program of learning for students who attend school, and students who are learning from home.

Schools will revert to their remote learning mode, using existing resources and programs. For additional support, refer to Learning from home.

Under the current health orders, there is nothing to restrict students and staff who must attend school from moving between two areas with different levels of restrictions.

Latest advice

Refer to Advice for families for the latest information.

Stay fit and healthy these school holidays

We are proud to be a Share Our Space school these school holidays, placing the school at the heart of our community by helping provide more quality open spaces to enjoy.

Whether you’re looking for a place to play sport with friends, exercise using fitness equipment, or simply to relax and gather with your family, you can Share Our Space with participating schools opening from 8am to 5pm from Monday 28 June – Friday 9 July, including weekends and public holidays.

Key things to know about Share Our Space:

  • Gates are opened at 8am and closed at 5pm each day.

  • To remind visitors to maintain appropriate physical distancing and COVID safe hygiene practices, additional signage will be provided. An external cleaning service will also be provided twice weekly to all Share Our Space schools during the holidays and at the end of the program.

  • The list of schools that are open may change because of emergencies or natural disasters.

  • Each school will have only one gate open during Share Our Space.

  • School toilets are not open during Share Our Space.

 To find out details and a school near you, go to the Share Our Space webpage at https://edu.nsw.link/ShareOurSpace

Information about school operations 4 May 2022

Good morning members of the Rose Bay Secondary College community,

On Wednesday 4 May, 2022 there will be industrial action taking place. As a result, minimal supervision only (no actual teaching of classes) will be available at Rose Bay Secondary College on that day. We will however, still be running the scheduled cross country carnival, for competitors only, at school that day. Further communication for competitors from Mr Flack will be forthcoming shortly. Students who attend on 4 May are advised to bring their own recess and lunch as the canteen may not be available.

Kind regards,

Melinda Bright

Principal

Rose Bay Secondary College